You can increase the number of partitions in a pipeline to improve session performance. Increasing the number of partitions allows the PowerCenter Integration Service to create multiple connections to sources and targets and process partitions of sources and targets concurrently.
When you configure an ABAP mapping to use pipeline partitioning, the PowerCenter Integration Service processes the partition information similar to processing dynamic filters. The PowerCenter Integration Service saves the partition information in the repository.
The PowerCenter Integration Service moves the partition information to the SAP system. The ABAP program then calls a function to process the partition information.
When you create partitions, you can override the dynamic filter condition in the Application Source Qualifier.
The following partitioning restrictions apply to SAP ECC sources:
You can only use pass-through and key range partition types.
The pipeline cannot contain multiple partitions if the mapping contains hierarchies.
The pipeline cannot contain multiple partitions if you generate the ABAP program using exec SQL.
Use PowerCenter default date format (MM/DD/YYYY HH:MI:SS.US) to enter dates in key ranges for datatypes such as DATS and ACCP.
You cannot use a RAW or LRAW column as a key for partitions.